Sunday, December 2, 2012

Super Powers

This
summer when I was on an 85 mile trek in New Mexico, my friends and I had this
conversation while hiking which was about superpowers. We came up with some
pretty unique abilities, some of which actually didn’t benefit the hero but
made their life harder. I don’t remember them all but I still remember a few.
Here they are:

The
ability to talk to fruit:
Strictly fruit; not vegetables. For this power, there were kind of two
variations that we came up with. Variation number one was that you can talk to
the fruit, but the fruit doesn’t exactly talk back. It just understands what
you’re saying. And that’s it. Overall, variation number one was pretty much
useless. Variation number two on the other hand, was a little bit better, but
there was much debate in discussing it. It included everything in variation
number one, but the fruit actually would more or less respond to your wishes.
For example, if you asked a bunch of bananas to attack someone, they would roll
into the person, over and over again, until told to stop. Another example was
that you could tell fruit that somebody was eating to rot in their mouth. My
friend W argued that fruit can’t commit suicide because it doesn’t necessarily
decide when to die. J, the guy who came up with the power argued that we don’t
really know that because nobody in the past has had the opportunity to speak to
a fruit. The debate just kind of continued on like this.

The
ability to detect Wifi and/or be a Wifi hotspot: This power very simply allowed
the hero to sense how many bars of Wifi were present in their location and/or
generate Wifi. Anyone who had this power would obviously make that person
pretty popular. If you were to have this power you wouldn’t be useful at all if
people were to stop using Wifi technology for some reason. Then you just become
one of those people who are very conservative in terms of letting go of old
technologies. And that’s kind of annoying.

The
Human Compass:
The human compass was my favorite power, which was actually made by me. Anyone
with this ability was capable of facing North and only North. They’re body was
capable of moving South, East, and West, but their face had to always be facing
North. As you’ve probably guessed, this power was included in the powers that
were more like burdens than gifts. However, the loophole for this ability was
that the human compass could face any direction that he or she wanted if he/she
was on the very top of the world; the North Pole.